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Historic donation leads to Choctaw-Ireland scholarship
Title (Dublin Core)
Historic donation leads to Choctaw-Ireland scholarship
Description (Dublin Core)
“The $170 donated by Choctaw leaders in 1847 — or “Black ’47,” as the Irish who survived the rampant starvation, disease and exposure remembered it — would today have amounted to over $5,000, historians estimate. At that time, the Choctaw were still grappling with their own grief and loss, caused by the abuses of a colonial government a decade earlier, and they appear to have seen their own suffering reflected in a people over 4,000 miles away. The donation has since inspired three visits between heads of state in both nations, the construction of an iconic stainless steel sculpture in Ireland’s County Cork, a poetry collaboration between Choctaw author LeAnne Howe and Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa, dance performances of welcome, music that aspires to merge Irish “trad” with Indigenous rhythms and a scholarship.”
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
Type (Dublin Core)
Newsreport
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Navajo-Hopi Observer
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Education--Universities
English
NGOs (non-profits)
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Collection (Dublin Core)
English
Indigenous POV
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
05/29/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
03/03/2021
3/15/21
Date Created (Dublin Core)
05/12/2020